Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

Choice is the basis of every part of your existence, but so is fear. The difference is, choice creates movement, where fear limits movement.

Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.

Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs.

Is to have had and lost/Better than not having at all?

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.